agricultural production within city limits, potentially creating jobs while addressing food security concerns and reducing transportation costs for fresh produce distribution throughout the region. WATERFRONT TRANSFORMATION AND CULTURAL LEGACY The Pellet Terminal is Lorain’s most ambitious waterfront redevelopment project yet. “It is an area in the city of Lorain right off of the mouth of the Black River as it goes into Lake Erie where ore boats would come into the city of Lorain and drop off these pellets for the production of steel,” Mayor Bradley explains.“Of course we don’t produce steel in Lorain anymore, so there was no need for this pellet terminal, and they left us with a huge brownfield, like 50 plus acres of brownfield across from Lorain City Hall.” “We applied for federal and state grants and got about six plus million dollars to remediate that property. We remediated the brownfield last year and now we’re doing the infrastructure improvements this year,” Mayor Bradley states. The city has issued requests for proposals from developers interested in mixed-use development that could include residential units, commercial space, and public amenities. The waterfront project includes plans to honor Toni Morrison, Lorain’s Nobel Prize-winning author. Born 243 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 09 LORAIN, OH
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